Significant Web Outage Impacts Many Websites and Apps

An extensive web failure has affected numerous online platforms and mobile apps worldwide, and users experiencing problems connecting to the web after problems at the cloud computing service.

The disrupted platforms comprise the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, along with multiple Amazon-managed platforms such as its key e-commerce site and the Ring security device manufacturer.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was impacted in addition to its subsidiaries Halifax and the Scottish bank, and further notifications of issues reaching the HMRC website on Monday morning. Also in the UK, several Ring customers used social media to state their doorbells were malfunctioning.

In the UK alone, reports of problems on specific platforms ran into the many thousands for each platform.

Officials confirmed that the problem started in the Atlantic coast of the United States at AWS, a division that supplies vital internet framework for many businesses, who rent out space on AWS infrastructure. Amazon Web Services is the world’s largest online services system.

Just after the start of the day (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), officials reported “higher failure rates and latencies” for the cloud services in a area on the Atlantic seaboard of the America. The widespread consequence was seen to disrupt services globally, with the problem monitoring service reporting problems with the same sites in different parts of the world.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a platform that tracks online failures, further indicated a increase in outages on that morning, and numerous instances located in Virginia, the region of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where AWS said the problems began.